1686 – Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Dutch-German-Polish physicist, inventor, and scientific instrument maker, who invented the thermometer and the Fahrenheit scale, born in Danzig, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (d. 1736)
1751 – Charles Emanuel IV, King of Sardinia (1796-1802), born in Turin (d. 1819)
1816 – Emanuel Leutze, American painter (Washington Crossing the Delaware), born in Schwäbisch Gmünd, Württemberg, German Confederation (d. 1868)
1830 – Alexei Savrasov, Russian painter, born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1897)
1841 – Tito Mattei, Italian pianist and composer, born in Campobasso, Italy (d. 1914)
1852 – Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham, Scottish politician, born in London (d. 1936)
1923 – Seijun Suzuki, Japanese cult film director, born in Tokyo (d. 2017)
1932 – Terence Heiser, British senior civil servant
1949 – Roger Deakins, English cinematographer (Blade Runner 2049), born in Torquay, Devon, England
1995 – Prince Joseph Wenzel of Liechtenstein, eldest child of Prince Alois of Liechtenstein, the Regent and Hereditary Prince of Liechtenstein, and his wife Princess Sophie of Bavaria, Duchess in Bavaria, born in Portland Hospital, London